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The Draft Dublin Waste Management Plan 2005-2010 will double the recycling infrastructure in the region. It continues the policy of achieving 59% recycling, with landfill reducing to 16% and the remaining 25% of waste being incinerated, generating energy for electricity and potentially district heating. Already, 26% recycling for household and …

Given the potential strategic implications on compost markets and related possibilities to propose similar provisions in other Member States, you may be interested to know, that after a technical inquiry Italy has finally listed – by means of a specific Decree – compost from separate collection among materials able to …

Sydney Morning Herald reports that rubbish from Europe‘‘s recycling bins is being transported halfway across the world to blight China‘‘s booming coastal cities, usually in plumes of acrid black smoke. Its fate is said to be very different from that imagined by conscientious householders when they sift through the detritus …

The International Herald Tribune has run an interesting and quite extensive piece on variable rate charging (pay-as-you-throw). The most notable thing about garbage in the picture-perfect medieval city [of Zurich] is that it‘‘s nearly impossible to find any. On Untere Zaune, a winding cobbled street in Zurich‘‘s historic old town, …

A new project that collects plastic bottles collected from farms for recycling has begun in Yorkshire. Letsrecycle.com reports that the Recovered Agricultural Plastics Scheme (RAPS) has been developed by Wrexham-based plastics reprocessor Recovered Plastic, working with East Yorkshire group JSR Farms and agricultural chemicals supplier Agrovista. Under the scheme, which …